Sentences with phrase «at the faith community»

Academy Award winning actress Mira Sorvino is the star of the latest film aimed at the faith community.

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This includes donor - advised funds at houses of worship and as well as those that have a mission to serve a particular faith group or in the name of a particular faith, such as Jewish Federations or Catholic Community Foundations.

They go on to state that there were many anti-Christs, who were present at the time of the writing of their epistle; and they state plainly that these anti-Christs were once among us (were members of their community of faith), but they departed from among them.

David Barclay, the Faith and Public Life Officer at the Centre for Theology and Community, has led the Church of England's work promoting and creating credit unions and ensuring payday lenders do not exploit people who can not repay their loans.

Many of us have been given this message (often by the media, the scientific community or well - meaning believers) that science and faith must be somehow at odds.

There is hardly a better example of the desperate state of the drug problem in the UK than the stories of the young recovering addicts at Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community that helps people to find healing from addiction through faith in Jesus.

4, Is it possible for a community to be composed of people of all kinds of levels of faith and even of no faith at all, or for those who hold a vastly differing views of scripture to keep fellowship?

Can they do all that and occasionally appear in person at a brick - and - mortar church and still be part of a faith community?

We need to realize that community and radical economics are at the heart of the Christian faith.

Tuesday's roundtable also looked at ways the CFPB can work with the faith community to assist those consumers who need help the most.

There is every danger of a piously suppressed smile at artistic faults in the performance of the text engendering doubts of the true religious feeling and faith of the actors, danger also of misinterpretation of the... motives of the community in performing the Play.

Here are some specifics on how this «always worship together rule» has now infiltrated our lives: Fred occasionally teaches Sunday School at my Baptist Church; I fully participation in his faith community's services and rituals during Hindu festival weekends.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

«I came to realize that without a vessel for beliefs, without an unequivocal commitment to a particular community of faith,» he wrote later, «I would be consigned at some level to always remain apart.»

But we're doing more than meeting needs: we're equipping and empowering the persecuted church to be the church, reaching out in love and compassion within their communities — whether those communities are comprised of other Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Yazidis, or those belonging to another faith or no faith at all.

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

At first, in the face of persecution, torture and death, Christians of the first three centuries continually relied on their faith and their communities to endure with the result being a rapid growth of Christianity throughout the empire.

Either the folks at Zondervan are having a collective faith crisis, or the evangelical community is finally opening up about doubt.

We are saved by faith and baptism into God's holy eschatological community that will be vindicated at the End as those who have fulfilled Torah to the glory of God.

Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.

... renewed creative dialogue between faith and reasonin the academic and artistic communities... especially at Catholic universities, in order to demonstrate that «there can not be any conflict between faith and genuine science» 9.

At a certain moment of history a special temporary form of the permanent nature of the Church as the community of free faith, hope and love may, indeed, become absolutely essential.

But in a pluralist society of general education and at a time when the community Church of faith is bound to come, we should surely consider whether the spiritual tactics of the people's Church are still viable, and if the «shortage of priests» does not partly stem from this.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

Faith at its deepest level is personal, and is fostered in the newcomer to the faith - situation, by the faith that already exists in the commuFaith at its deepest level is personal, and is fostered in the newcomer to the faith - situation, by the faith that already exists in the commufaith - situation, by the faith that already exists in the commufaith that already exists in the community.

At a recent conference at Duke University on «Science, Faith and Technology,» we pondered the computer's significance to our quest for communitAt a recent conference at Duke University on «Science, Faith and Technology,» we pondered the computer's significance to our quest for communitat Duke University on «Science, Faith and Technology,» we pondered the computer's significance to our quest for community.

Would the vision of the leaders assembled at the Summit affirming their faith in globalization becoming benevolent in which economic and technological progress distributed to unite rather than divide the community is a reality or just plain rhetoric?

Well, it's a slightly polemical remark, directed at those Christians who think Christianity is simply a matter of the community of faith telling its own story, and who don't even want to discuss issues of the historical Jesus because they think the Bible and the tradition have told us all we need to know.

His challenge to communities of religious faith is to acknowledge and take the measure of that intelligence, while at the same time fashioning a constructive critique that can raise the standards by which we assess what qualifies as the best and brightest.

At a time when political developments in Washington are generally discouraging to advocates for economic justice, faith - based organizing shows the enormous potentials found in grass - roots America and particularly in the rich web of religious communities.

For the faith includes the truth about the human person and human communities, which nations ignore at their peril.

But Paul would disagree and would say «In order to be be saved you must be in Jesus the Messiah (by baptism and faith) and be part of His eschatological and holy community the church which will be vindicated at the End».

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

At the end of his article Wilken writes: «The question to be asked, then, is whether, face to face with Islam, Christians will be able to sustain, rebuild, and create strong and resilient communities that provide institutional anchorage for the faith to endure and flourish.

My argument here is that the traditions of the oldline churches at their best do offer a powerful spirituality and a faith - based community that, in principle, constitute an adequate response to the continuing hungers of our culture.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

They are intent on showing that here, in Jesus, the Love which is God is decisively at work — healing, helping, strengthening, giving life, and above all bringing into existence a community whose characteristic marks are to be faith, hope, and love.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32

We may need to look at the world through the eyes of the shared expectations of a tradition and community of faith and hope if we are to be grasped by the substance of revelation.

Partly because of the opposition of Communist countries, The United Nations has kept itself at some distance from faith communities, although Religious NGOs have, for many years, made a contribution at certain levels, in particular to specialist agencies.

Another limit comes at that point where critical thinking leads someone to cease to identify with the community of faith.

The whole and complete truth is not something we can claim to have with certainty at any time, but it reveals itself to us slowly in a community of faith.

They look around their communities, find the most hellish places, and armed with weapons of grace, kindness, compassion, mercy, faith, hope, and love, hurl themselves headlong at the gates.

Between phone calls, mailings, and knocking on doors, Reed estimated his pro-family, pro-free market group had 58.8 million voter contacts aimed at the conservative faith community.

Claire Walker, Chief Executive of the National Churches Trust, said: «At the heart of communities in cities, towns and villages, cathedrals and churches are a treasure trove of architecture, history and faith.

Speaking at a Mass at St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, he said: «It is simply unacceptable to suggest that the resources of the faith communities -LSB-...] can work in cooperation with public authorities only if the faith communities accept not simply a legal framework, but also the moral standards at present being touted by government.»

Dan and I are still in search of a faith community that feels like home, but at the risk of sounding cliché, «not all who wander are lost.»

There is a story out of Iowa - a story about a faith community that has matured beyond voting for the «most evangelical» candidate as a «statement» and takes seriously the responsibility of electing someone to occupy the Oval Office at a time of great national testing.

This pastor was thrilled at the «health» of his church, and the «revival» that God was bringing in response to years of prayer, but really, not a single new person in the community had come to faith in Jesus.